And I got myself this container of multi-vitamin capsules from Costco. Not a special brand, not a marketed wonder product, just a bog-standard "does what it says on the tin" multi-vitamin.
You may recall a post I made last month assessing the value of JP's fruit and vegetable capsules. You know, the products Jenny and other distributors market as being wonder products capable of helping people lose weight, fight diseases and have bags of energy.
In this post I am going to compare three different criteria between my multi-vitamins and JP's fruit and veg capsules. They will be price, quantity and quality.
1) Price
Jenny charges a combination of fruit and veg capsules for £37.75 per month for a total of four months. This amounts to £151. The product I bought cost £14.14.
That is a colossal difference of £136.86. Multi-vitamin wins this round in a similar way to Floyd Mayweather winning a boxing match by just breathing on his opponent - it's that embarrassing.
2) Quantity.
So, the pressure's on JP. They have to justify a huge financial gulf with quality and quantity. Quantity is up next.
Jenny's fruit and veg combo deal: 240 capsules. The recommended dosage can be one of the following: two of each a day, as the product labels recommend, or one of each a day. Depending on which method you pick these capsules either run out in 60 days or 120 days. I am going to be nice and assume that this deal is meant to last customers the whole four months with one of each capsule a day.
Now the multi-vitamin. How many tablets do I get? 500. Recommended dose? One a day. This means, obviously, that I will not need to buy another container for well over a year. If I were to stick with a strict one-a-day routine then I won't need to purchase another container until May 2017.
That is a substantial gap of 260 capsules. By the time a JP customer finishes taking their 240 capsules in 120 days, I'll still have 380 of mine remaining.
So far, my multi-vitamins are 2-0 up. Can JP dramatically come back with product quality?
JP capsules, as I discussed in my post, contain only four vitamins: A, E, C and folic acid. It doesn't matter whether you take the fruit or veg capsules - that's all they contain. The only difference is the level of each vitamin you receive from them.
Compare this to the contents of my bog-standard multi-vitamin:
First, apologies for the quality - my phone camera is cracked, so I have to take funky pictures using the selfie lense.
To make the contents clearer these tablets contain:
Vitamins A, D, E, C, B1, B2, Niacin, B6, folic acid, B12, biotin, pantothenic acid, K, calcium, phosphorus, iron, magnesium, zinc, iodine, chromium, copper, manganese, molybdenum and selenium. Yes, I haven't heard of half of those either.
JP capsules contain four vitamins. That's it. My bog-standard cheap ass tablets contain 24.
And I don't want to stop there. I want to compare the volumes of the vitamins in the respective products too.
In a daily one-veg-one-fruit capsule dose, a customer of Jenny's receives 30.5% of the daily recommended intake (DRI) for vitamin A.
For vitamin E, they receive 50% DRI.
Vitamin C, 79% DRI.
Folic acid, 94%.
Only folic acid gives the customer anywhere near the max needed in a daily dose. Vitamins A and E don't even give more than half.
Compared to a one-a-day tablet of mine I get 84% of my RDI for vitamin A, 83% for vitamin E, 75% for vitamin C and bang on 100% RDI for folic acid.
Again, my cheap, bog-standard, average supermarket multi-vitamin mops the floor with JP capsules.
In every assessment I just made, my multi-vitamin outshone JP at embarrassing levels. It demonstrates that JP's capsules are vastly overpriced and vastly overrated. Why spend £151 for a four months supply of four vitamins when you can get way more for just over 9% of the cost by just buying multi-vitamins? The mind wonders.
On a final note, it is worth a serious reminder that some distributors, like Jenny, massively overstate the benefits of JP products. They claim the products help lose weight. They claim the products help with pregnancy/conception. They claim the products can help with diseases like Crohns and diabetes. I have even read reviews of people who attended distributor events who implied - key word, implied - that JP products help fight cancer. This is simply bunk and dangerous marketing.
The fact of the matter is if JP products really do have the power to fight these diseases and lose weight, then I should basically be Superman by just taking these tablets. But I will still get sick, I will still have ill days, I will still put on weight if I live on junk.
I cannot emphasise it enough. Before purchasing from someone like Jenny, ask them for their own, direct knowledge of the product. Check the contents of the products. Compare them to others. Quite simply, do your homework and don't be misled by salespeople who only care about making a quick buck.
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